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As a legacy weeks owner with Marriott, we've been on a several previews now for the Marriott Vacation Club point system. In all of these presentations, they make several misrepresentations and omissions. First, they say for one annual fee (which includes your Interval membership), all of your other costs go away. However, this is only if you stay within Marriott; if you use Interval you still have to pay all the Interval exchange fees. They also said that the fee was $169 but then we have found out that the fee has already been raised to $175 for 2013. Second, they say that your costs for your resort accommodations are now fixed at the current level forever. This is FALSE!! They can raise the per point maintenance fee any time they want. The MVCI website still says points are $.40 per point per year; whew, that's $1600 if you own 4000 points. But it has already been raised to $.43 for 2013. Plus, Marriott can change the number of points required for any given accommodation any time they want. I also think the cost of purchasing these points is outrageous. You would be a fool to buy them given what's on the market these days. We might still elect to convert, but we have already sold one week back to Marriott (for less than a third of what we paid) this year and will sell the other if we get the chance. It used to be a great deal; the Marriott properties and the staff are always wonderful, but the maintenance fees and exchange fees have ballooned to the point where we think its not a good value anymore. It's also getting more and more difficult to exchange thru Interval into another Marriott property since most of their excess inventory is now being reserved for point owners. All Marriott sells now is the point system because it's a win, win, win for them, and a lose, lose, lose for you.